what I have come to terms with...

(Part 2: Facebook)
Oh boy, don't even get me started on Facebook -- "it's complicated" (ha, just kidding, that was kind of a bad joke). Recently I tried quitting the stupid thing; I mean, it's just a website, right? (No, it's not!) Oh, I hate it, but I'm afraid it has become a necessity. Communication is so easy because everybody is on it: high school friends, college friends, really old friends from elementary/middle school... For example, I tried calling an old friend ALL of last week, but we just ended playing a terrible game of phone-tag. But then I just messaged her on facebook, and it was that easy (we hung out, finally!). It's also nice because I have friends I never get to see (because Sugar Land is 880 miles away from Nashville, 1,900 from Boston, 1300 from Virginia, 263 away from Dallas, 1000 from Charlotte, 1000 from Kentucky, 1300 from Ohio, & 160 from Austin), and they have photo albums. I guess it's nice just to see a familiar face, even if it's on the internet.

I want to end this passive-aggressive relationship, but I just can't. So unfortunately, I have to take back my word. Of course, I think I'll use it a lot less, maybe I'll just use it to talk to people.

Oh, one more thing that is really scary about facebook (besides the potential stalking that could occur) -- I always dread checking the "Recently updated" friends list. It's a scary experience, especially when somebody goes from "In a relationship" to "Single" or "It's complicated". Because it's so sudden and I usually don't get an explanation (because keeping in touch is something I really need to work on), bad things run through my head, although I'm sure they really are rarely (actually never, I let my imagination run loose too often) true. For instance, I'll think, 'Oh no, what if her boyfriend tried to start a civil war in Mexico and didn't succeed! I bet that's a complicated situation,' or 'Maybe he found out that she had an extra toe or she had two stomachs. Ew that would be kind of gross. Would you gain weight faster if you had two stomachs?' or 'Perhaps she got pregnant and when she gave birth, it wasn't a human baby but a donkey or an octopus!' It was especially bad when a lot of my online friends were graduating -- things changed from 'In a relationship' to 'Single' or 'In a relationship' to 'Engaged'. Don't scare me like that!

P.S. Today is the worst morning program in the whole wide world. I don't know how many times they used the phrase, "Beijing Bling." Yes, Matt Lauer, ha.. ha..., if only I had your VAST knowledge of Generation X lexicon.

P.P.S. Watch the first video! Eli Sweet is suh-weet.